The quantified self Kool-Aid is wearing off, thankfully
A wearable alone won't solve the nation's obesity problem or help people manage congestive heart failure. Data needs context, a Silicon Valley startup executive explained.
Getting your hands on your own health data collected by apps might be harder than you think
Even though fitness trackers show users their data, most of them don't provide easy access for users to export their health data for their own analyzation.
Using Informed Awareness to Transform Care Coordination and Improve the Clinical and Patient Experience
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Jawbone UP data quantifies exactly how much sleep was lost to California earthquake
I don’t think our Bay Area health IT reporter Dan Verel wears a Jawbone UP. If he did, he would have been in the minority of the Napa/Sonoma/Vallejo/Berkley users who didn’t wake up during the Sunday morning earthquake in Northern California. When I texted him yesterday to make sure he was OK, he replied, “Yup, […]
New wearable health trackers let parents be completely OCD about baby’s health
Wearables for grownups get most of the media hype – Fitbit, Jawbone, and Shine – but don’t think that babies have been left out of the quantifiable self craze. Whether they like it or not, babies can now be tracked as well, with devices ranging from teddy bears to turtles. One of the companies in this […]
The Quantified Us: Between Big and Small Data, Between the Quantified Self and the Crowd
UPDATED: March 25 Have you ever wondered how many steps you took today, or exactly what percentage of calories you burned walking versus running? Curious to know how stressed you are at work versus at home, or exactly how much REM sleep you got last night? Concerned about how pollution in the local environment might […]
Wow of the Week: The quantified self goes to the Olympics
Since wearable health technologies seem to have found the most traction in a slice of the population with a great interest in being healthy, it makes sense that many Olympic athletes used sensors, algorithms and data to get themselves in top shape for the event. Here are a few examples: Data-obsessed Alpine skier Steven Nyman […]
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.